3 original, vintage sepia photographs. Each labelled in ink on verso, two dated (1896). One with printed label in Hungarian on recto. Sizes: 180 × 130 mm and 190 × 150 mm. Collection of 3 photographs of the building of Transylvanian Railway Network between Mádéfalva and Gyimesbükk (today: Siculeni –..... More

[1890s]. In original red cloth. 65 original, vintage, black and white photographs in various sizes. 27 album card leaves. Album page size: 220 × 152 mm. Private photo album of late 19th century Brazil.
The album includes several photographs taken in the countryside about indigenous Brazilians, pineapple and..... More

(Budapest): Erdélyi foto, (ca. 1930). 14 × 19,5 cm. Photo by Mór Erdélyi (1866–1936). Singed by him at lower right corner.
Sir Marc Aurél Stein (1862–1943) was a Hungarian born British archaeologist, mainly concerned with exploring ancient Central Asia. Member of “The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire”..... More

Nürnberg: Joh. Hofmanns, 1685. First editions. Two works in one volume. In contemporary limp vellum. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Both works illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates. Extremely scarce and only editions on the Ottoman Empire, both published in 1685, during the time of its greatest extent, under..... More

Sevilla: Andrea Pescioni, 1582. First edition. With 35 woodcut illustrations, some recurring. Decorated with heraldic woodcut on the title page, numerous woodcut initials and a tailpiece, and woodcut printer's devices on 4¶4 and on the last leaf. Text printed in two columns. In 19th century, empire style, red morocco binding..... More

Paris: Auguste Picard, 1939. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front cover in black ink. Text in French. In publisher’s printed wrappers. (2), 263–268 p. Inscribed copy of Stein’s report about his aerial archaeological survey of ancient Roman limes in Transjordan and Iraq which he carried out in 1938..... More

A Paris: de l’Imprimerie de P. Didot l’Ainé, Imprimeur du Roi, M DCCCXIV [1814]. First edition. Presentation copy signed and inscribed to Badía y Leblich’s son, on verso of the title page of the first volume in brown ink. In 19th century half leather. Spine gilt, with black title vignettes..... More

London: Thomas and George Underwood (Thomas Davidson, Whitefriars). 1822. First edition. In hard paper binding. (8°); (4), 64 p. Saxe Bannister (1790–1877) barrister and attorney-general of New South Wales, founder of the first infant’s school in Sydney, author of numerous pamphlets on behalf of natives in the colonies.
[Sabin..... More

Budapest: Dante, (1931). First Hungarian edition. In publisher’s red cloth. With the scarce, illustrated dust jacket, designed by Sándor Bortnyik. 248 p., and 8 plates with photographic reproductions. The book was published in the series of travelogues by the Dante publisher, and some of the dust jackets were designed by..... More

Napoli: Dalla Stamperia de’ Fratelli Fernandes, 1818. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Spine lettered gilt. XX, 213, (3) p., and 4 engraved plates. The first overview of Kurdish region and about their customs. With four engraved plates, three show the Kurdish costumes and the fourth a wild goat which..... More

Praha (Prague): Aventinum, 1927. With numerous text illustrations by the author. Signed by the author. Title page printed in red and black. In publisher’s printed buckram. 106, (6) p. Signed copy of Čapek’s humorous travelogue of England, with numerous illustrations, also by him.
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) was a Czech..... More

Pesten (Pest): Szent-István-Társulat (Herz János), 1856. First edition. In contemporary half leather. Gilt ornaments and title on spine. VI, 2, (1)–416, (2) p., and 2 plates protected with tissue (portrait of Columbus and a double portrait of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile) and a folding map..... More

Zagreb: Tisak Kr. Zemaljske Tiskare, 1922. With a photographic portrait of Darwin and a double page folding map. Illustrated throughout. First Croat edition. In original printed wrappers. (7), (4)–165, (1) p., with a photographic plate and a folding map. Rare first Croat edition of the The Voyage of the Beagle..... More

Paris: Jacques Langlois et Emmanuel Langlois, 1654. First edition. Complete, with the three folding maps. With several woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. In somewhat later leather.
The gilt spine is with five raised bands and red title vignette. Front and rear panels ruled with gilt double-line at the edges..... More